[PATCH 3/4] Use embedded libfdt in the bootwrapper
Scott Wood
scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Nov 9 09:50:11 EST 2007
David Gibson wrote:
>> How hard would it be to get libfdt to dynamically allocate any extra space
>> it needs? This is a regression from the current flat device tree code...
>
> Uh.. it already does. Or rather, the shims in libfdt-wrapper.c do so,
> when libfdt functions which can expand the tree report that they've
> run out of room.
Ah, good -- I was looking in libfdt itself, not the wrapper. Now if
only we could get something similar into u-boot... maybe libfdt proper
could accept an optional realloc() function pointer in fdt_init(), and
eliminate the need for the caller to provide such a wrapper?
-Scott
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